Le président de la Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, a lancé un appel aux États membres de la zone euro les invitant à consolider leurs budgets en 2016. Il a estimé que compte tenu des faibles taux d’intérêt, de nombreux États croient actuellement pouvoir continuer à financer un endettement toujours plus important. "Le véritable test de résistance pour les budgets publics interviendra lorsque les taux d'intérêt repartiront à la hausse", écrit M. Weidmann dans une contribution au journal Wirtschaftswoche.

In a speech held in Frankfurt, Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, criticised the ultra-accommodative monetary policy across the world, claiming that it would not sustainably achieve higher growth and that it could also have tremendous consequences for financial stability. "The sooner we get out, the better," he said.

In the past, financial system crises have often been triggered or accompanied by a protracted marked rise and then abrupt sharp fall in property prices. At the sixteenth Bundesbank Spring Conference, leading global economists, central bank representatives and delegates from international organisations presented and discussed their latest findings on this topic.

To mark its 60th anniversary, the Bundesbank held a high-level symposium in Frankfurt am Main on the future of central banking. During the course of the event, participants highlighted the benefits and constraints associated with non-standard monetary policy measures, the economic consequences of interaction between central banks and governments and the impact of new financial technologies.

The Deutsche Bundesbank posted a profit of €2.95 billion for the 2014 financial year, compared with €4.59 billion in 2013. Speaking at the financial statements press conference in Frankfurt am Main, Bundesbank­ President Jens Weidmann mainly attributed the year-on-year decline in net profit to the further drop in interest income.

Germany's economy is on a sound upward path, as indicated by the Deutsche Bundesbank's semi-annual economic projection. Domestic demand is the chief driver of the current upswing.